skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
along the lines of acting for the benefit of the community and society as a whole.

i believe the purpose of life itself is to contribute to an ever advancing civilization. actions and intentions are measured against that goal.
I can corroborate this. My family was involved in a chemical manufacturing business in India from the 60s onwards. My understanding from what my family tells me is that the 80s and early 90s is when a lot of these base manufacturing inputs became readily available.
With super difficult algorithmic code, for me, it works best to just start writing and then fix, than to get stuck not knowing how to write.

Algorithmic code aside, I’m learning cuda now, and I just told gpt to write me some code and I debugged it then (with gpt’s assistance as well). It took me an hour to produce something that I expected it would take 2-3 days otherwise.

As for picking up what doesn’t look right - if it doesn’t work, you can pinpoint place where sth is messed up using a debugger/prints, and then you learn how the code works on the way.

I remember that when I was learning to program 30 years ago was the same - I rewrote pong game from a magazine, then kept changing and messing up things until I learned how it should work.
males are much bigger and dont bite.
I agree with this and we use direct kernel boot for libguestfs. The problem for confidential VMs / containers is the kernel must be inside the image and must be inaccessible to hypervisor (as that is the exact point of the thing), and direct kernel boot needs the kernel to be outside and accessible. The problem for oVirt and other management systems is that usually you want the kernel to be inside the VM so it gets updated when you update the VM, and again direct kernel boot means you've got to have a way to reach in and extract it (cough virt-get-kernel).
Daniel Shiffman taught me to code for the first time in a way that totally shifted the way I thought about coding from utilitarian to fun and creative. I wonder how many lives he's had this impact on. Good on you sir.
> They simply exist because for everything someone has to own something.

And for things like housing, that should be the person who lives in the house.

> Communism doesnt work, I hope that knowledge doesn't have to be relearnt

What part of our massive homelessness problem do you see as the current system working?

I'm not even proposing communism as a solution, but this absurd pretense that we have a working system needs to be crushed, and trotting out scare words like "communism" when you don't even know what they mean whenever someone criticizes the existing system is a big part of why our system is so broken.
Neovim + neorg. Requires a bit of configuration but is rather neat and clean.
> PHP is just htmx taken to the extreme

What a close-minded and weird comparison.
It may sound weird but: offer a web app in addition to your native mobile app.

I feel there's growing awareness for privacy and reluctance against installing native applications, which have a track record of being data-hungry.

Privacy-aware users may be a minority, but many of them have fat wallets.
Some of them shell out $2,000 for smartphones such as the Liberty Phone.

Speaking of which: mobile apps can be discriminatory because they force you to use an Apple or Google OS, excluding other smartphone users. If you absolutely must have a mobile app, and are unwilling to offer an app for mobile Linux as well, then at least consider offering a browser-based alternative.
Well, the article does not mentioned anything about second order effects of the use of fertilisers and herbicides that happened 50 years ago in another country so I am going with: No.
I don't know why you're sure of that opinion: it is well beyond current scientific evidentiary support. And sex in some species (e.g. ducks) appears deeply unpleasurable for at least one of the participants.

But homosexual behavior is widespread across animal species, which does undermine the parent's case.
This isn’t productive.

I never said you said that, I said some people. I never said you should or shouldn’t use LLMs on exams, I have no idea why that’s being brought into this conversation.

I can only assume you’ve lost the thread and/or think you’re replying to someone else. This will be my last reply.
I cannot speak for everyone, but in my neck of the woods there are specific deliverables like locking down server access more, removing poorly secured test accounts and older auth methods in general, locking down network in terms of what can access what, cleaning up dependencies, etc. There's a list of about 20-30 things that are to be measured automatically and driven to ~0.
PHP syntax makes it relatively easy to do ad hoc code generation, for example.

Right, Python has a purpose as a glue language.
Show HN: I built the first Billboard website for Crypto coins
Few months ago, I was examining a Crypto coin before buying, it was ranked at #130 (by it's market cap). But I really wanted to know how it was ranked 7 days ago? 30 days ago? a year ago?

I couldn't find the ranking history of any crypto currency on any known website; CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, Coinbase, etc
They all provide Price history and Market Cap history, and they all display the CURRENT rank. But, what about rank
history?
For some strange reason, this piece of data is hidden to public.
I ended up fetching crypto data from API's and making the ranking calculations myself, it turned out to be a non-trivial task as one would think. ALL mentioned crypto data providers does not provide rank field via their API. So it required me to collect the data every night to save the history and calculate the rank for each coin.
After few weeks of tuning and stabilizing the data, I was reassured my calculations are 100% valid and trustable.

I loved the result, it really helped me gain added perspective on specific coins and the market as whole. So I decided to build a website and share it.

It is called coin-ranks.com, and it is the first Billboard for crypto coins. It enables you to see the rank change per specific time range (48h, 7d, 30d, etc) and a rank history Chart. For example, did you know Fetch AI (FET) has soared 27 rank positions in the last 14 days?

Would really love to hear your thoughts and comments!
you can find me on github as amitpdev.

Thank You!
The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)
Poor Gemini... Google is clearly lagging behind
the manner in which they live and die is as important.
Book Review: The Hidden Extinction Crisis of Natural Historians
it used to be; pretty decent now
As far as I know preview doesn’t support creating or even viewing cryptographic signatures at all.
If you're looking for a good image optimization product, I've had excellent results from ImageOptim (I have no affiliation with them). They have a free Mac App, they have an API service, but also they kindly link to lots of other free similar products and services: https://imageoptim.com/versions.html

If you can spare the CPU cycles (depending on how you optimize, they can actually be expensive) and if your images will be downloaded frequently, your users will thank you.
And I find it odd that you write of ‘the country’ simpliciter when this is a court ruling against a scheme with the support of the government.
As a counterpoint to that, I grew up in a blue-collar family under modest circumstances and I still feel like bigcorp software development is soul-crushing. Surely, you appreciate it for a while. But eventually the reality of it sets in, and can't ignore the BS anymore.

I know I'm luckier than most humans on Earth, but still hedonistic adaptation is a thing, even if you grew up in a poor family.
FTP? Seriously?

And PHP isn't just Wordpress.
Thanks! Hope it's useful for you!
You have to learn how to most effectively use ChatGPT etc. If you use it the same way you use Google you'll probably get better results from Google.

Here's an example from yesterday where I knocked together a tool for converting Atom XML to JSON using XSLT in a couple of minutes on my phone, just out of curiosity to see what it would look like: https://chat.openai.com/share/4bc7922b-b1c2-411c-aef9-b41b0f...
The OSI Model: Understanding the Layers of Computer Networks
Having a third party is nice even if you don't have an advertiser in the loop.
Being able to compare (between 2 episodes, 2 podcasts, 2 countries, 2 players…) is a real plus.
And at least OP3 is open data.
SCO owned IXI at one point and sold the desktop to various vendors until CDE emerged.
That is because you would be acting in legitimate self-defense squashing the mosquito - the only time violence is acceptable. All other violent acts are in karmic vain.
I have said a lot of nasty things about recruiters in the past (I’ve accused their job of being creative was of hitting FWD in Outlook), and I generally do not like dealing with them, but I dunno, sometimes they’re helpful.

On very rare occasions they will know if I am actually a good fit for a job because they’ll take the time to actually learn a bit about CS. Those recruiters I generally like.
So don't have expired tags? It's illegal.

Further, the towing company was most likely also scanning for plates that aren't registered as it is a huge problem for renters where parking spots are a limited resource.

Car isn't registered as a guest or tenant? Tow it.
Show HN: Monitr – A data visualization and analytics platform
Unscheduled Time Off
> The Georgian allegations of a Russian invasion were supported, inter alia, by claims

Great explanation for the type of person to think the Gaza conflict started on October 7th 2023.

Russian troops were preparing to repel upcoming Georgian takeover of South Ossetia. At the start of the war Georgian military commander announced on TV that they are moving to take control of South Ossetia and said nothing about Russian invasion.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamuka_Kurashvili
I find that it's usually folly to speak in absolutes, but in this case I feel confident in stating:

The only carbon capture which will ever scale as well as we need it to scale, is carbon capture which creates carbon-based products cheaper than current fossil-fuel methods.

There is a company working on that, there should be a dozen.

Terraform Industries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922006

Interviews with CEO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923611
Visual Studio Code, with a directory hierarchy of notes.

Doesn't tick your not-Electron box, but should meet all other criteria. In my opinion, its Electron-ness is only really noticeable at launch time but once it's launched, you hardly notice it at all.
I played around with it a bit and it looks like you have to do some pretty gnarly things to get JSON string escaping to work in XSLT output - at least for the XSLT 1.0 version supported by most web browsers: https://chat.openai.com/share/4bc7922b-b1c2-411c-aef9-b41b0f...
how much warning did they give before the changes go into effect?

how much warning should they have given?
Lowering the QCI of existing plans and charging $7 to get the speed back is ridiculous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification?wprov=sfti1
Probably start caring about what's on your plate before which bugs you squash, if you vow to care about consciousness, suffering and other beings.
What's a good paper that measures the total net effect including costs, chemicals, environmental effects?
Easy to say, but working on a house framing/electric/plumbing project for 8+ hours I would rather have the gloves on. With a lathe or mill, of course I'm not gonna wear gloves.
Tracked it down from Reddit: https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/hyakuf...
Both Swift and Mateal are beautifully clean - and I’m saying this as someone who spent years hating on curly brackets and static typing.

Ditto Xcode.

The biggest issue is the lack of documentation for Metal.
That’s a commercial vehicle.
Is that meant to be a joke?
Quick dining is by definition fast food
‘Tenant improvement allowance’ is what that is called.

Your employer’s facilities director/real estate person is a bit naive if they claimed it’s free money since it’s not free money. The TIA cost is just priced into the 10 year lease over the duration. Nothing is free.
Buying seed and fertilizer and pesticides from another country is almost the same as importing the food directly. You have a poor country that is struggling to export products and then you tell it to import even more? Recipe for disaster.
> LLMs bridge layers illegibly and probabilistically.

I’m not sure I agree but I want to make sure we aren’t talking past each other.

Using an LLM to write code does not have this problem IMHO.

Using an LLM as part of the code does have this problem.

I’m not writing off the usefulness of calling out to an LLM from code but it does bring “illegibly and probabilistically” into the mix whereas using an LLM to write code that’s human-reviewed/modified does not.

In fact, you should be unable to tell what I wrote vs what the LLM wrote if I’m doing right (IMHO). “Clever” code is always bad no matter who/what wrote it.

The only time I’ve been asked “did you use <insert LLM> to write this?” Was due to the speed at which I completed something or because it’s in a language that the person asking the question knew I didn’t know very well.
> The jargon is minimal

Just pointing out the obvious here - it’s impossible to have any jargon in this paper since it literally created the field. Any jargon is necessarily invented later.

On the whole I agree: just go read the paper. While you’re at it, queue up Lamport’s The Part-Time Parliament of Paxos.
I like markor
And so they stay beginners.
self-hosting would be what's important for me as well; mostly because I don't trust my data / notes being hosted by someone else. I currently use Logseq without syncing.
This is such a good point, and the commonality and importance of it are underestimated (or not estimated at all) and underappreciated.
On the other side, a typical contact form message reads something like... 'Of course I have read the FAQs but just wanted to ask the exact same question which happens to be the very first FAQ on the list...

Also, publishing an email address seldom works out well.
So, a closed source operating system can do things the user can't control? I don't know what's more impressive, the fact people don't apprehend this reality, or the fact people still rely on VPNs (especially a third party) for privacy or whatever.
Trivially solved by C# - you can write an algorithm implementation with the same data structures that would perform the same as in C, C++ or Rust but often with more convenience.
In a system with production branches and staging, you build for staging from the production branch.

When you're in the release process, the branch won't match what's currently deployed, but that's ok. The point of a production branch is not to indicate what is on production at this instant, but to be a record of what was deployed to production or at least was intended to be, for changes that get canceled before deployment.
OMG I FUCKING HATE VALET PARKING.

It's such a scam. Many places with valet will have valet-only parking lots. Often, they will have them in locations where self park garages are too far away to be practical. (I'll still park at those garages, though; I'd rather walk than use valet.)

Some valets will drive your car recklessly to a parking spot and change your power seat configuration. Valets with tight lots will double or triple park cars, so you'll need to wait for them to Tetris your car out of wherever they parked it. If you're picking up your car at an off-peak time and they only have one attendant, you're waiting at least ten minutes if there are others in queue.

"Free" valet; paid valet; doesn't matter. They all suck!
Come on downvoters: surely your super solid argument can withstand my accounting records. Tell me what I'm missing as someone who owns the very sort of building I rented in for decades under maybe 10 landlords– both good and bad– at 10 addresses! What haven't I learned from that and the many people I've known who've owned rental buildings for decades? Surely the family whose bar I cooked in that owned 4 or 5 buildings they maintained themselves (even illegally doing things like replacing gas boilers themselves) was somehow hiding the labor they put into it because they all spent almost all of their time running the bar?

Surely if you feel that correct, you've got solid empirical evidence that opposes mine, right? Expenses and labor are cut-and dried and any responsibile business owner documents them, right? This should be an easy argument to prove me wrong in.
I agree they're best at simple things and things that are talked about on the internet a lot (they're pretty great at parsers for example).

But... a significant amount of code is simple. Even in complex projects there's still a lot of trivial code.

And even when they produce something wrong, it's usually still faster than starting from scratch. At least for smallish bits of code. Though admittedly it can be a bit more frustrating on occasion because you're doing something more like code review and who doesn't hate code review?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1785406795814510785
This absolutely will happen, and most likely the other process is also PHP. The most obvious example is caching anything to a file. I don't hate PHP though, I just don't feel the need to convince myself it couldn't be improved.
I am for society not degenerating to the point you need to do a Bukele to fix it. That means having police, whether they're perfect or not.
The bird was just goofing around on its back, perhaps aware that its companion might join it. It was more a tease than a fight. Perhaps novelty seeking behaviors are just of broad utility evolutionarily speaking, but there didn’t seem to be any directly obvious utility in this case
Only if all those animals are treated poorly. Or at least if they’d be likely to pick non-existence over such existence if they had the choice.
That doesn't mean you can achieve the same result on an unmodified MIUI, Samsung OneUI or Google Pixel phone.

Even if the system app doesn't utilize much of it's permissions, it still at least won't be killed or denied from using microphone just because it's in the background or because the phone display is turned off.

And again - how do you achieve Google Assistant-like direct voice activation without system permissions? How do you get rid of Google Assistant without having a ROM that doesn't include it?

Yes perhaps building a standard AOSP and adding their app is enough, so you could flash your phone with a simple custom ROM to achieve what they did. But that is still significantly different from just installing the app on a standard Android phone.

BTW stuff like Google Assistant, Play store etc is not part of BSP or AOSP. The standard apps they refer to are things like the basic browser (not Chrome), dialer, launcher, settings and so on.

Also, it's possible their app wouldn't get through Play store review due to privacy/security concerns.
I actually think Apple has been putting neural engines in everything and might be training something like Llama3 for a very long time. Their conversational Siri is probably being neglected on purpose to replace it . They have released papers on faster inference and released their own models. I think their new Siri will largely use on device inference but with a very different LLM.

Even llama.cpp is performant already on macOS.
I agree with you, no doubt there. But still, technology often offers the path of least resistance. So even if you want to hire better people, what of all the people who will grow up training themselves with Copilot? Yes, you can filter them out but it will be harder and harder to find good people. And then, companies will want to go after the bottom line: what if they can get a bigger and more complex product out there with AI assistance but with code that is more unreliable in the long term?

I tell you, it's spiralling out of control. Besides, even if you're doing the hiring, you may not have control if there is a profit motive. Us technical people cannot control the race to the bottom line, especially over the period of decades.
Arguably, while of alien making, the Macross flying fortress fits the "real robot" definition and seems to be miscategorised. By and large it's no different than your regular Imperial Star Destroyer except that it can transform to a humanoid form.
Many people do not find sweet potatoes palatable and won't eat them. Rice doesn't have this issue. The whole point here is to introduce Vitamin A into the food supply of people with limited options at risk of Vitamin A deficiency without changing the diet so as to encourage adoption.

This is no different than when western countries started iodizing salt. It was much more effective at eliminating iodine deficiency than telling people to just eat seafood.
Salesperson's Perspective

(initial introductions, "accidentally" stumbling on the owner's favorite bar/beach/...) Yeah, I'm doing my damndest to make the world a better place. There's all of these great tools for doctors, but they're struggling, getting hit by the crossfire of malpractice suits and interoperability difficulties.

(later meetings) We just landed <xyz llc>! They're world-class at helping patients with <abc>, but they didn't have the resources to survive in the current political climate. The founders were floundering pouring their own money in to try to keep their patients happy, but with our help the patients are better off and the founders can finally retire comfortably.

(much later) I see how much you care about your business and how it's really about the people you serve; that's why I got into it too. When it's finally time for you to sell, you definitely don't have to go with us, but please try to hand it off the right way to somebody who cares. Private equity vultures don't make anybody happy.
Your first post was in response to me claiming that going to McDonalds wasn’t cooking or getting an Uber isn’t the same as knowing how to drive. Specifically, they you were responding to was an anecdote about a student cheating on an exam by using ChatGPT, at least it appeared that way to me. It’s not weird to think your response was in regards to that.

Maybe I misread your intent there, I just got a vibe that you were defending the use of LLMs during exams since that was the thing you were responding to. Apologies if I misread.
That's what I always thought. JA was the only actual robot in the series. Everything else that is human made is a cyborg.
That's not really a PDF thing. In that case the PDF is a thin wrapper around raster images. Extract the images, increase the contrast with gimp or imagemagick, and make a new PDF. You could script this if you had a lot of them.
And I don’t want to read your email…
>more stock of rice would [...]

Does golden rice have better yields? Or is it just like any other rice but with more vitamin A?
>I don't want to fill out your contact form

Yes -- and companies or governments don't want to be _contacted_ by you. It's a cost to them. The median "contact us for a sales quote" form is clearer and has less friction than the median "file a complaint / ask a question" form.

One reason not in the article people might use forms instead of email is the "set and setting" of being a guest on a website and filling out their form. When in "your" email inbox as opposed to on "someone else's" site, you may conduct yourself differently.

An example of this is the sometimes-onerous Github issue template questions. I'm not arguing they're not necessary, but they do two things: mandate required information and _imply_ that you are a guest and you must hold yourself to someone else's communication norms.